The University of Virginia and the National Geographic Society will partner to present National Geographic On Campus, a two-day science and storytelling event open to undergraduate and graduate students at UVA.
A group of Charlottesville high schoolers is teaming up with doctors and medical students at the University of Virginia for a chance to experience the medical field firsthand. This new, year-long program allows the kids to get a taste of all the different careers that are available to them in the field.
(Commentary by Christopher Ali, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia) Despite the large amount of funding coming from the Rural Utilities Service and the F.C.C., rural America has not seen broadband deployed and adopted at the same speed and effectiveness that it had with electricity and telephone service almost a century ago.
(Commentary by Mark Miller) I am a professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Virginia. I am also a victim of knee osteoarthritis and have gone through knee replacements for both of my knees a little over a year ago. Since then I have made it my mission to educate the public about this condition, and to try to keep the enthusiasm regarding new cutting-edge options in check. That is because I have seen many patients who have paid thousands of dollars for a so-called stem cell treatment only to discover later that they were duped. In most cases fortunately, the only injury was to their...
The airline's decision to offer service to the Aloha State has rattled the stock of would-be competitor Hawaiian Airlines. In what's been dubbed the "Southwest Effect," fares are $45 lower in markets where the airline has nonstop service than in cities without those routes, a University of Virginia study found.
So far this decade, Virginia has grown — and shrunk — in population. Seventy of the state’s 133 cities and counties gained population between April 1, 2010, and July 1, 2018, according to data released this week by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. The population of Loudoun County, in Northern Virginia, jumped 30 percent, to more than 406,000.
An “exit tax” already exists under U.S. law, applying taxes on all the U.S. assets of expatriates with net worth above $2 million as if they had been sold, said Ruth Mason, a law expert at the University of Virginia.
Constructed in 1825, the Rotunda has always served as the centerpiece of the university’s Academical Village, a UNESCO World Heritage site where Jefferson’s original structures stand.
(Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia) What we lament is the demonstrated anti-democratic, inhumane, hateful and violent forces hijacking your service and doing great damage to the world. The problem is Facebook, not “the Internet.”
(Video) University of Virginia's Children Hospital held a fundraiser to support a program that could help hundreds.
Ryan has been a White House correspondent for American Urban Radio for 21 years. In a keynote speech during the University of Virginia’s two-week celebration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Ryan dove immediately into the events of Aug. 12, 2017. But the core of her speech focused on women in the center of civil rights movements, who organized and strategized for greater freedoms. Those women, she said, offer hope in the face of racism and hate today.
“I can only compare her in America to a movie star or a music celebrity, because no poet here would reach that kind of status,” said Farzaneh Milani, author of “Forough Farrokhzad: A Literary Biography” (2016) and a professor of Middle Eastern culture at the University of Virginia.
“We’ve got to have actionable, practical ideas,” former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) said last week during a conference at the University of Virginia. “And I worry — we can’t get into this election season with everybody trying to out-promise one another.”
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce has launched a new leadership circle for members. It's called Partners in Trust, and area organizations are invited to invest in the advancement of the business community as a whole while allowing participants to position themselves at the front in leadership and innovation. The founding members of the program include the University of Virginia and the UVA Health System.
Admissions season is year-round for many colleges, with some top colleges filling nearly half of their freshman classes through early admissions processes that start at the beginning of fall. UVA is no exception; on Jan. 25, the school announced its Class of 2023 is so far more selective and more diverse than the previous year.
Anyone with a serious illness knows it can really take a toll, and it can be just as tough for the people taking care of them. That's why staff at the UVA Medical Center want to lend a hand.
By 2020, the teams are expected to have developed a way to determine, in less than two weeks, whether an unknown DNA sequence poses a threat. That will be a difficult task, says Andrew Warren, a UVA software engineer. “We have to be able to recognize any organism on the planet and also its molecular function.”
"The big theme is a return to light-hearted humor," University of Virginia professor Kim Whitler said. "There’s an acknowledgement the Super Bowl is about entertainment."
A health issue, normally associated with cruise ships, is popping up at the University of Virginia. Norovirus, sometimes referred to as the stomach flu, is affecting several people at UVA. The Director of Student Health at UVA spoke on Wednesday about methods of prevention of the virus.
With arctic air blowing in Wednesday night and wind chills below zero, don’t forget to dress warmly if you are going to be outside. Doctors at the UVA Medical Center are reminding people to cover their heads, faces and hands. They add that you should not stay out longer than you have to.